Response to your comments on WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

Dear Christophe Strobbe:



Thank you for your comments on the 24 February 2009 First Public Working
Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/). The
Protocols and Formats Working Group has reviewed all comments received on
the draft. We would like to know whether we have understood your comments
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valuable to the development of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation
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Regards,



Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair

Michael Cooper, PFWG Staff Contact


Comment 279: WAI-ARIA UA Implementation Guide: mapping to Mac APIs
Date: 2009-08-20
Archived at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/2009JulSep/0002.html
Relates to: WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - 3.5. State and Property Mapping <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/#mapping_state-property>
Status: Accepted proposal

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Your comment:
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The role mapping in the WAI-ARIA UA Guide 

<http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/#mapping_role>


maps WAI-ARIA roles to NSAccessibility (i.e. Cocoa), but the state 

and property mapping 

<http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-implementation-20090224/#mapping_state-property>


maps ARIA states to values/names in the Carbon accessibility API 

("AX..."). Is there a specific reason for this?

Safari is a Cocoa application (like other Mac browsers: Camino, 

OmniWeb, Shiira), so a consistent mapping to Cocoa/NSAccessibility 

appears to make more sense.

(It may be possible to "translate" the names from the Carbon API to 

the Cocoa API by means of a simle find-and-replace operation, but I 

have checked this for only a few names.)



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Response from the Working Group:
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We are currently working with Apple to make sure the UAIG has the correct
APIs for all sections of the UAIG.

Received on Monday, 14 December 2009 23:11:30 UTC